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11/11/2013 11:08AM

Why Apple Is Big in Japan

Japan has emerged as Apple's fastest-growing region, far outpacing its home market and the booming economies of Greater China and the rest of Asia. Spencer Ante reports on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.

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... in ... all of you worried about Apple's growth by one word for you ... Japan ... will enter the rising sun surprisingly become a major growth market for Apple as she she I phone Spencer on pay a fee with the de tails of this one ... a lot of people don't really talk about Japan discernible growth driver anymore ... Landon of growth are actually maybe nobody talks about a water wise Apple had such a good time was a great story by our job to his car spun into its care what someone washing is actually covering Apple now come back to us ... and the ... basement with a stock that is the second um it's a fast one week of restful here is the biggest source of their own proper growth ... and its countries like you said and what's going on here well ... to rich country like the US that ... the debt high carrier subsidies ... from the four wireless carriers and so ... you combine those two things in the fact that Samsung which is ... their biggest competitor Apple ... there they don't have a big bump up its presence ... in Japan due to more geopolitical concerns in good economic concerns in so you put all this together and the money and hinted that Apple's number one inch in Japan ... it is very much up all know that the fact that it is just ... how will help track to be used to say I've got the I phone ... yes and that you are one of the quotes iOS announcing a ... deal to me that is what the I've yet to pan and rice that its own brand of a country and so the Apple brand is is very shiny ... and a knife and so people wanted us also um that Hitler's carrier ... phone carrier of wireless ... and NTT till Comeau ... um just actually began offering the I phone ... I can provide an added another leg of growth bought ... me this is great for Apple but it really doesn't solve all you know even close all the problems and look to the fact the matter is ... there's a reason people don't talk about Japan's of the growth market ... yesterday yes so it's great that they're doing well in Japan ... but they're doing well in a market that is not seen as a big growth were for a lot of people ... the the fourth of August ... you know will of wireless market in the world so it's nothing to sneeze out right you know the middle of the regional on money there but ... Apple's biggest problem is more on the lower and where they're getting aam out maneuvered by Samsung will face multiple devices and cheaper price points ... and so this ... this will help them on the high to maintain some of their share ... but in the in the lead this country ... but they still need to come ... on and address the Lord of the market or they need to address ... not the other part to the high end of the market in a bigger screen is right in his report out that Apple may ... um be moving to bigger screen so that actually makes them want to get ... any kind of a fall to overflow from Japan into China in the country is separated by an ocean of me ... the task wholly separate markets or ... is there anything that they can use in in China that they're doing well in Japan yes there's minimal lot connections it into markets and they don't like to mention China because ... China ... is the fastest growing smartphone and sparkle Mark and all of the biggest smartphone market the world Apple's fifth in China ... that showed to ... God the challenge in on a writ large the a ... and and so sometimes number one in China so ... that you know in order for the beleaguered really more excited about Apple would need to be making gains in China ... so ... bright watches to countries that guy gets the spent a lot ...